<p>so what makes it so hard to get into?</p>
<p>Demand vs. available seats.</p>
<p>so not really so much caliber of applicants?</p>
<p>does anyone know the percent of applicants that actually get admitted to medill? not northwestern as a whole university, just the journalism school.</p>
<p>Of course it has to do with the caliber of students. A school is hard to get into when it’s good enough to attract a lot of applicants. The caliber of accepted students increases because the school has more to choose from.</p>